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This collection uses the concept of 'story' to connect literary materials and methods of analysis to wider issues of social and political importance. Drawing on a range of texts, themes include post-colonial literatures, history in literature, old stories in contemporary contexts, and the relationship between creativity and criticism.
List of contents
Acknowledgements Introduction Story Streams: Stories and their Tellers; Jan Shaw PART I: INDIGENOUS STORIES 1. The State of the Nation's Narratives; Witi Ihimaera 2. Testimonial Textures: Examining the Poetics of Non-Indigenous Stories about Reconciliation; Tom Clark and Ravi de Costa 3. Indigenous literature in the Pacific: The Question of the Didactic in Storytelling; Raylene Ramsay 4. Mother Stories: The Woman Myth in By the Bog of Cats and Tea in a China Cup; Kristen Liesch 5. (Re)telling the Story of the 1994 Tutsi Genocide in Rwanda: Une Saison de Machetes (Machete Season) by Jean Hatzfeld; Narelle Fletcher PART II: FICTIONAL HISTORY AND HISTORICAL FICTION 6. Transnational Glamour, National Allure: Community, Change and Cliché in Baz Luhrmann's Australia; Meaghan Morris 7. Writing the Story of the Wartime Occupation of the Channel Islands; Peter Goodall 8. War, Wives and Whitewash: The Zookeeper and his Aryan Animals; Julia Petzl-Berney 9. No Man's Land: A Revisionist Story of the Cyprus Problem; Irini Savvides 10. Transnational Storytelling: Visions of Italy in Two New Zealand Novels; Sarah Patricia Hill PART III: THE SEA OF STORIES 11. Shakespeare and the Sea of Stories; Mark Houlahan 12. Reading Chaucer 'in Parts': The Knight's Tale and The Two Noble Kinsmen; Margaret Rogerson 13. What Women Want: The Shrew's Story; Philippa Kelly 14. Stories of Selves and Infidels: Walter Charleton's Letter to Margaret Cavendish; L. E. Semler 15. 'Telling the story my way': Shakespearean Collaboration and Dialogism in the Secondary School Classroom; Linzy Brady 16. The Tale of Melusine in A. S. Byatt's Possession: Retelling Medieval Stories; Jan Shaw PART IV: CRITICAL CREATIVITY 17. Redcrosse: Storytelling, Nation and Religion in England; Ewan Fernie 18. Paul Auster's Storytelling in Invisible: The Pleasures of Postmodernity; Rosemary Huisman 19. Emotional Rhythm; Ian David 20. Rogues: A Speculation; Sue Woolfe 21. What Would Happen If ...? A Semi-Memoir of aSemi-Philosophical Musician and Sometime Carpenter; Paul Dresher Index
About the author
Linzy Brady, University of Sydney, Australia
Tom Clark, Victoria University, Australia
Ian David, screenwriter, Australia
Paul Dresher, composer and musician, USA
Ewan Fernie, University of Birmingham, UK
Narelle Fletcher, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
Peter Goodall, University of Southern Queensland, Australia
Sally Hill, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Philippa Kelly, University of California Berkeley, USA
Mark Houlahan, University of Waikato, New Zealand
Rosemary Huisman, University of Sydney, Australia
Witi Ihimaera, writer, New Zealand
Kristen Liesch, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Meaghan Morris, University of Sydney, Australia
Julia Petzl-Berney, University of Tasmania and University of New England, Australia
Raylene Ramsay, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Margaret Rogerson, University of Sydney, Australia
Irini Savvides, writer, Australia
L. E. Semler, University of Sydney, Australia
Jan Shaw, University of Sydney, Australia
Sue Woolfe, writer, Australia
Summary
This collection uses the concept of 'story' to connect literary materials and methods of analysis to wider issues of social and political importance. Drawing on a range of texts, themes include post-colonial literatures, history in literature, old stories in contemporary contexts, and the relationship between creativity and criticism.
